I believe Gilbert Briggs of Wharfedale did something like this in the
1950s. He hired major concert halls and other public venues in the UK
and USA to give concerts comparing live with recorded sound. Of course,
the purpose was to promote his Wharfedale loudspeakers and Quad
amplifiers (he and Peter Walker of Quad were friends), but the events
were apparently sold out well in advance. I'm sure I have a reference
somewhere in one of Briggs' books.
On 17/05/2013 16:53, Augustine Leudar wrote:
Dear Robert - what I am talking about has nothing to do with the
multimicing of orchestras etc which are used to subsequently produce stereo
recordings, 5.1 etc - and it has not been sold to the public by the music
industry at all on account of the fact that to listen to it the public
would need a lifesize replica of the space the sound installation was
designed for (in this case a church and a bar ) , a multichannel soundcard
they would be unlikely to know how to operate and about 20 very irregularly
spaced speakers.
However I dont see why it wouldnt work for musical instruments as well - as
long as the speakers were placed in exactly the same place as the
instruments were recorded in and the mics didnt pick up any other
instrument apart from the one they are meant to record . I guess instead of
the musicians in the orchestra you would have speakers sitting in their
place - but you would still need an orchestral hall and the speakers would
still need to be in exactly the same places the musicians were sitting - Im
sure somebody must have tried this - again not something you can listen to
in the living room.
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